H0504 Summary

• Reduces Idaho Uniform School Building Safety Code Committee membership from nine to eight members by removing the Department of Administration representative.

• Removes requirement for Department of Administration notification and involvement in the process of designating licensed professionals to evaluate imminent safety hazards in school buildings.

• Modifies procedures for imminent safety hazard evaluations so that the administrator (rather than the Department of Administration) receives the licensed professional's findings and makes final determinations.

• Clarifies that the administrator may designate a licensed professional to evaluate serious safety hazards prior to issuing written orders, with compliance timeframes not exceeding one year.

• Removes Department of Administration as a recipient of final hearing board decisions under the appeal process for school building safety violations.